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Originally Posted by Mblock66
To me the 350Z owner doesn't have a choice. That is the top model they have to work with so they need to tune the crap out of that V6. In our case the V6 owners could have bought a fully warrentied V8 with way more power and never had to touch the car. You usually tune the top models not the base.
For example the civic. 99% of the newly tuned civics will be the Si model. There is no point to modding out the base when it will not even get to the original Si specs.
The 330 BMW. Not worth spending all kinds of $ on Dinan mods when you could just buy the 335i which will run circles around a tuned 330.
Etc. There are cases of this across the board and across all price ranges. Even the sky.solstic or the cobalt. You would never in your right mind buy the base and try to juice it up to its SS or Redline partner, it wouldn't make sense.
So in my eyes I just don't get why there are so many people on here planning on buying the V6 camaro and modding it out to try to be this beast of a car when the SS is right there for probably less money, 100% warrentied, and minimal difference in insurance.
An intake or a cat back to make it "your own" sure I can agree with that. But putting THOUSANDS into the V6 is just silly when the SS is staring at you.
It will take a lot of mods and power to get the V6 6.1 0-60 to the project 4.4-4.5 0-60 of the SS ......... 1.6 seconds off a 0-60 is a TON of power needed
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However, the point I think others are trying to make with regards to the V6 modification are more long term plans. Maybe they don't have to money to get the SS at the time with higher gas and insurance, but 50,000 miles later they have a little spare cash to put into the V6. People do this all the time, especially with imports. They buy the base model for whatever reason then start dumping cash into it. You should see some of the people who own 2.2L Cobalt LS and LT's. Plus who knows? Maybe some people want the challenge of building a monster V6.